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Month: January 2017

Featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s excellent series, This is High School, “Austin’s English paper” illustrates the challenges students with Autism face as they try to build social connections.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of the hit broadway musical, Hamilton, discusses how he created a distinctive pattern of rapping for his character. He demonstrates his language arts skills with his mention ofinternal rhymes and assonance.

Fake news has become ubiquitous on social media, and it’s increasingly difficult to determine if the stories are legitimate or not. Following are some resources for helping kids and adults sort out the fact and the fiction. Below that you’ll find a real NPR news story about how one high school class is confronting this problem.

In early Beatles’ music, the studio only provided a way to record what the band was already doing live. Technology didn’t present any new opportunities. That completely changed with the album Revolver. In particular, the song “Tomorrow Never Knows” reveals how technology was able to help the band capture the sounds they heard in their heads. Producer George Martin along with sound engineers were able to use technology to help the Beatles redefine their music. Watch this video from the PBS series Soundbreaking to learn more.

A few weeks ago, I was watching an episode of the excellent PBS program Soundbreaking. I realized that the Beatles’ music is another great way to think about the SAMR model. As Ringo Starr explains, when they recorded their early albums, they basically just went in the studio and recorded what they’d been playing live for audiences. This is a great example of substitution in SAMR because the studio allowed the Beatles to record their music, but it didn’t actually change the music.